Music Quotes

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald

"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times."

Nina Simone

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."

B. B. King

"Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious."

John Coltrane

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Dizzy Gillespie

"I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

Ludwig van Beethoven

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."

Robert Schumann

"The thoughts which are expressed to me by music that I love are not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite."

Felix Mendelssohn

"It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table."

Johannes Brahms

"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

Gustav Mahler

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic."

Jean Sibelius

"Music creates order out of chaos."

Yehudi Menuhin

"The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper."

Pablo Casals

"Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

Arthur Rubinstein

"All my life I had a choice of hate and love. I chose love, and I'm here."

A. R. Rahman

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Berthold Auerbach

"Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe."

Albert Einstein

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."

Bill Nye

"If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

Stevie Wonder

"Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over."

Ray Charles

"You are the music while the music lasts."

T. S. Eliot